Fundamentals of Fire Fighter Skills Evidence-Based Practices, Third Edition

Fundamentals of Fire Fighter Skills Evidence-Based Practices is a Jones and Bartlett (J&B) Public Safety Group manual, now in its third edition, and SkillsTrain, the authorised Action Training Systems (ATS) distributor in South Africa, imports and supplies it locally as part of the ATS instructor-resources range. The evidence-based-practices framing sets this title apart from the separate standard Fundamentals of Fire Fighter Skills manual, which J&B publishes in its own fourth edition, and ATS lists the two as distinct products rather than two printings of one book.

As a Fundamentals-level text, the manual sits alongside the core ground covered in ATS's video-based Firefighter I and Firefighter II pathway, giving a programme a printed reference to run next to the practical skills drilled on video. Evidence-based practice, in a firefighting context, means building skills instruction around what current research and real incident data show actually works on the fireground, rather than resting on tradition alone, so a department choosing this edition is choosing that framing specifically, ahead of reaching for the standard title.

SkillsTrain's role is to bring the current, publisher-produced edition into Africa at the standard Jones and Bartlett has set, not to write, revise or accredit the content itself. Where an academy is unsure whether this evidence-based edition or the standard Fundamentals title better fits an existing programme, SkillsTrain can talk through the difference with the training officer before an order is placed, so the right reference lands with the right course.

Who it is for: academies and training officers wanting a firefighter-skills reference text built specifically around evidence-based practice, used alongside a Firefighter I or Firefighter II programme rather than on its own.